Withdrawing 2BTC / day can be risky, any custodian wallet, including Binance can easily seize the funds if they get the chance.
Binance has also some bad guys caught in their history (see here or recently here). Of course, catching a few rotting fish when half of the pond stinks, is not enough.

However, what Zaif exchange does is not so much related to Binance doing anything wrong. They try to deflect public eyes from them to somebody bigger. They want to hide their incompetence, which is .. childish.

I guess that you are talking about this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DRbTeMCzb4UeXI0YlAzBxMc2u2i0cN_17Ql6eMngK6E/edit#gid=0
It was not updated for long period of time and I forgot about it, but it was still there in my bookmarks 
I don't know how much reliable still is after so long.

If VIP would be like we'd expect to be, the answer would be yes.
But here VIP means 50BTC donated and we're back to the same problem you had with the "Donator" position: it would be unfair vs the actual donators.

I also think that a special badge or status is the proper way to go. Sorry.

First of all, you should have stated your residence area.
Some card issuers are in Europe, others in US, others in Asia/Pacific area and some may be more oriented to Russia (there were 1-2 such in the past, but I didn't follow).


I can't tell how well they handle large amounts, but I can surely tell it's expensive to withdraw at ATM, at least from Wirex card. I also have AdvCash, but I didn't use it as much yet.
Revolut, as basic account, allows only very limited ATM withdrawal, it's not really a Bitcoin card (you may fund it though with fiat from exchange) and the internet is full of horror stories about locked accounts/funds.

That's an incorrect perspective. It's not against Monero. Just read:

I think that making the transactions traceable would be already enough for IRS.
Of course, if that'll ever happen for real, Monero will become pretty much useless.
Until then we may only receive "free audits of Monero code" from the bounty hunters 



CypherTrace claims are not to be taken serious. It's more "a commercial". As somebody said, "We will have to see if this tool is going to lead to some "big" court cases". That's the only ever indicator I expect to see if the tool will ever work. ....I don't think so.

If you stay on Bitcoin only or at least don't play with many different altcoins, Nano S is just fine and imho Nano X is wasted money.
And if with the current 20% off is still too expensive, wait for better offers.

Meanwhile, especially if you know a bit more about computers, you can use a TailsOS USB stick with Electrum as cold storage (just make sure it never goes online and also make sure you keep your seed written on paper). You may need some reading to do it right and it's not as convenient as a hardware wallet, but it'll be safe.

There were many others telling that it's only diversifying and it's not actually a bet against US economy. I don't think it's related to arguing against him or being repetitive.
I don't understand why it was removed (it could be smth personal or a mistake?). But as said, it's in a self-moderated topic...



I think that Japan had some bad time and now it may recover and that's what WB is betting on. As simple as that. And I also agree: it's not related to US economy.

I think that you have misunderstood it.
The network doesn't care about the source of money. 99% sure the miners also don't care.
The recipient of the money, a company, may however do censoring. That's the "beauty" of custodian wallets  

If you do a search for account closed gambling wallet site:bitcointalk.org you'll find that some exchanges / wallets may not allow money coming from gambling.
Also the wallets known to be related to known hacks are being watched and most exchanges may seize those coins.


I think that this is the censoring Charlie Lee was talking about, not about actual transactions.

I'll pick 4.
Interesting way to promote your exchange  

And yep, the fees are crazy (actually if I win I'll keep the funds exactly for various fees).
I advise OP to wait and pay the winer at least in week-ends.

Of course this is correct if you only have a couple of dollars worth of coins.
If you have anything meaningful I don't think that anybody sane would leave the funds onto the hands of various businesses / exchanges or not, even with KYC. And I'll tell you why:
1. Bitcoin is not properly regulated and you may end up with your funds seized by govt.
2. Bitcoin related businesses are not properly regulated either and a hack is easy to be faked. PS. Where is Binance's "official address" this year?   (Is it Malta, China, Singapore or somewhere else?)
3. Nothing is too big to fail / fall. A business that went bankrupt for whatever reasons will not pay your funds.
4. If the business will leave you without money, will you be able to hire good lawyers to fight for your money? With what funds? And with what odds for success?

All in all, I expect everybody sane who has life changing funds in Bitcoin will use (offline) cold storage for them.

The good part is that the code is there on Git ( and since OP didn't put links, here we are: https://github.com/horizontalsystems )
I'd still like to hear about 3rd party review of the code, made by somebody I trust (yes, I know that this will take time).
At least the apk is indeed made from the Git code (according to walletscrutiny.com), good!

OP, you seem to be on the right track, but it'll need time.
And a question: does this wallet work with hardware wallets? (I want to see if it's a worthy competitor for Mycelium, or "not yet").

This is absolute newspaper-like crap. How can they move "the value"? And how can they be considered holders if they don't own those coins anymore?
"Not your keys, not your coins", remember?


People seem to have short memory. There were the ICOs, "the big thing" that turned out to be big thing only for scammers. Now there's DeFi which is a greed-driven bubble which I don't see how it could end up well.
Keep your eyes open and don't gamble invest more than you really afford to lose.

Thank you, I've read myself the news some time ago somewhere. And I didn't say the news is fake. My advice was for the safety of that guy. Sorry if it was misinterpreted.

Indeed 


I would be overly surprised if they'd do that.
I also advise you find better sources for your news, I would not trust anything coming from bitcoin-dot-com website.

Of course such numbers published are a good advertising for what they do and I hope that some of the bigger investors do ask for a proof of such claims from Grayscale. Else everything is a (bad) joke.
I'm curious how tough they played on the market to buy at a good price (how much did they also sell!)   
All in all, if everything is nice and fair, it's quite an advertising also for Bitcoin.


PS. In the same way we had rumors in the past about MtGox money being prepared to be sold, I expect "Graycale is preparing to sell" rumors will be used in the (not too far) future to shake the weak hands.

Or install/use a side software, a block explorer, which will probably index all the data different into a new database and which then he can query as he likes.

If you read from start you'll see that 8 of the 12 words were known. So he only searched for 4 words.
For each missing word it's exponentially more difficult and you are missing all 12 words.

So you have absolutely nothing from the old wallet, no seed, no backup, nothing?
What wallet.dat you actually want to "crack" if you don't have the old one?
Do you understand that if finding the private key (or seed if you want) for a random address would work, no address would be safe and Bitcoin would have been long dead?

I hope that I've misunderstood something. And sorry for your loss...

Intr-adevar, tax evasion faci daca ai cumparat si ai tinut Bitcoin ca investitie.

Dar de fapt acelasi lucru se intampla si cu valuta. Daca tii valuta pe perioade mai lungi de timp ca sa te aperi de inflatia leului, teoretic si acolo trebuie declarat venit (cel putin asa am inteles de undeva la un moment dat). Lucrul asta se intampla frecvent mai ales ceva mai demult cand inflatia chiar era mare.

Deci da, daca investesti in alta moneda si aia creste fata de leu, e un venit care trebuie declarat si platite taxele, altfel faci evaziune.


Similitudinea e mare:
Si valuta poti cumpara fara sa treci prin banca, iar casele de schimb vor cere sau nu buletinul, oricum nimeni nu verifica, si poti sa o cheltuiesti sau tranformi fie prin banca, fie prin casa de schimb, fie cumperi ceva direct (probabil din straintate).
Si Bitcoin il iei prin case de schimb cu KYC sau p2p fara KYC, iar de cheltuit - fie schimbi inapoi, fie cumperi prin procesator de plata sau pe barba magazinului.
In ambele cazuri declaratia de venit e pe barba ta.

Diferente sunt 2 mari si late:
* Bitcoin poti sa si minezi
* Bitcoin are variatii mari de pret si poti castiga mai mult decat cu valuta (dar asta probabil se va tempera in timp).